Vision :-
Education centre is one of our approaches to broaden our human right perspective work to larger extent. It will work as a resource and knowledge centre to social change processes in the region on one hand and provide action based education to development worker worldwide. We strive to create small evidences of sustainable and democratic development to advocate for larger changes in system.

Outreach Strategy :-
Education Centre focuses on knowledge generation, information gathering, analyzing and dissemination of them in order to create meaningful change in the favor of poor and marginalized people. We employ following strategy to achieve above.

Our Training Programmes :-
Training has been a core activity for HIMAD since its inception. HIMAD run workshops and training programmers for awareness on human rights and empowerment. Our training programmes include:

Issue based workshops for development workers and activists such as gender perspective, human rights, people centered advocacy, rights based approach, social mobilization and organization, Panchayats, rural entrepreneurship etc.

Training on issues of community empowerment with community such as domestic violence, child rights, family life education, micro finance, CBO formation, entrepreneurship, legal provisions, mother and child health, RCH, HIV/AIDS, income generation and citizen rights and entitlements etc.

Training on issues of organization development with office bearer of voluntary organizations such as social revision, organization development, corporate social responsibility etc.

Mentoring and orientation for volunteers, interns and students interested in contributing in social change process.

Education centre provide experienced and highly professional trainers and facilitators to its training programs. Regionally acclaimed trainer of education centre known for using democratic, interactive and participatory training methods.

Capacity and Services for training and workshops :-
Education Centre is a well-equipped training centre, which provides their services relating to training and excellent logistic support. Far from city pollution and noise, education centre is situated in rural surrounding in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand (India). Centre premise consist beautifully constructed building and more than one hectare of agriculture land. It is surrounded with beautiful pine trees with clear view of snow covered mountain and Alaknanda river of Himalaya. Building comprises of two floors having well-equipped and fully furnished rooms, lobby, training halls, meeting rooms, library, furnished hostels and dormitories, big dining hall and delicious kitchen. It has capacity to host 40 participants at a time. Apart from this, centre has agriculture land with green vegetables, lentils and fruit tree. In future cow and buffalo will also be added to provide ecological dairy product to the centre.

Education Centre has perfect environment and facilities for education and trainings. Voluntary organizations, donor Agency, Academic institution or civil society organization intend to organize training programs in peaceful location surrounded by ever green pine tree; river and mountains are welcome to avail our facilities.

Facilities Available :-

• Social revision
• Organization development
• Documentation- and reporting technique
• Interview- and evaluation technique
• CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)
• Micro finances
• Sustainable development
• Social entrepreneurship
• Family life education
• Group formation
• Situational analysis
• Acting as method for mobilization
• Yoga
• Internships ( different focus on the subjects of the students)
• Empowerment .
• Health
• HR and CR)

Featured Trainings/Courses
Courses at HIMADs education centre

·  Social revision
·  Organization development
·  Documentation- and reporting technique
·  Interview- and evaluation technique
·  CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)
·  Micro finances
·  Sustainable development
·  Social entrepreneurship
·  Family life education
·  Group formation
·  Situational analysis
·  Acting as method for mobilization
·  Yoga
·  Internships ( different focus on the subjects of the students)
·  Empowerment .
·  Health

·  HR and CR)

Social revision
Description :-
The course is to give the participants the opportunity to theoretically and practically understand the process of social revision. The participants will receive information of the outcome of using social revision in their organizations. The course is carried out during 30 lecture hours and four days. All parts of the course are important for a complete understanding and it is crucial that the participants take the whole course to be able to use the knowledge fully. The course will be held in the form of seminars, using workshops as main tool and the participant’s contribution in the form of discussion is a large part of creating understanding of the material.

Organization development
Description :-
The course turns to people who are working in NGOs or in GOs. The course will give the participants the possibility to understand the concept of organization development both practically and theoretically. The course is to create knowledge of how to improve the organizational structure they work in and by that control the life cycle of their organizations. The course contains of lectures and workshops where the participants will contribute with examples and their own experiences. The course divides 30 H on four days. It is crucial that the participants attend all four days to be able to use the information they receive in an effective way.

To apply for financial means
Description :-
The course turns to members of organizations who are in need of creating financial means is order to survive or be more effective and raise their capacity. The course is mainly based on theoretical material and tutoring, where the rules and regulations of applications to the Indian Government as well as international funders. Advice and information of content in the applications will be handed out during the course that will increase the possibility of receiving funds. Mainly Indian NGOs should be interested in this course but can if interest is found also be given to international NGOs. The course of 15 H is divided on two days.

Documentation- and reporting technique
Description :-
The course turns to organizations who are applying for governmental and international funding and by that are in need to report back to their funders. This course will provide for documentation- and reporting skills to funders and to keep the organization transparent and increase their accountability. This course can be seen as a step two of “To apply for financial support” and the content of the course is adjusted for Indian NGOs even though international NGOs can apply for the course as well.

Interview- and evaluation technique
Description :-
The course turns to participants of NGOs, schools, universities or GOs who have the wish of increasing their knowledge in interview- and evaluation technique. The course has both practical and theoretical content where the participants will practice the techniques empirically. The course is divided into two parts and the participants can chose to join in only one of the elements. The course is six days long á 50 H. Two days of interview technique and four days of evaluation technique.

Participatory democracy
Description :-
These courses can be applied for by individuals who are part of organizations or work where as teacher or instructor and who want to increase their pedagogy. The course is divided in three elements where three different methods of teaching are presented. These methods are alternative and can be seen as a complement to already received knowledge about teaching. These methods are built on the ideology of participatory democracy and are created to increase understanding and communication in situations where authority, bureaucracy and prejudice are taking place. This course is about teaching these methods in practice and not just how to use them. The methods will be practically learned during the course where the participants will be using the methods them selves. The theoretical part of the course will provide information about the psychological gains that the use of these methods brings as well as the role of the tutor. The course is 6 days long, each method is given two days and has a total of 50 H.

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